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This 6.5mm Carcano M91/38 was only manufactured for two years, 1940–1941, and discontinued in favor of a new 6.5mm long rifle, the M91/41, which was made until the end of the war. [5] The C2766 rifle was a part of surplus rifles sold by the Italian Army, through a tender, to the New York company Adam Consolidated Industries.
Finland sold all of its approximately 74,000 remaining 7.35 mm M91/38 Carcano rifles on the surplus market. As a consequence, large quantities of surplus Carcanos were sold in the United States and Canada beginning in the 1950s. In Italy, the Polizia di Stato and the Carabinieri retained the Moschetto 38 TS, [9] retiring it from service in 1981 ...
The 6.5×52mm Carcano, also known as the 6.5×52mm Parravicini–Carcano or 6.5×52mm Mannlicher–Carcano, is an Italian military 6.5 mm (.268 cal, actually 0.2675 inches) rimless bottle-necked rifle cartridge, developed from 1889 to 1891 and used in the Carcano 1891 rifle and many of its successors. A common synonym in American gun literature ...
Carcano M91 (1981–present Worldwide) Arisaka type 38 (1906–1945) Arisaka type 99 (1939–1945) Mosin–Nagant (1891–present) – The standard Issue Russian/Soviet rifle for almost the entire first half of the 20th century; K31 (1933–1958) – Standard Swiss rifle from 1933 to 1958; SAFN 49 (1948–1982)
The grenade launcher was permanently mounted on the right-hand side of a modified Carcano M91TS carbine.This was the Carcano M91/28 Moschetto per Truppe Speciali, 'carbine for special troops', i.e. a carbine intended for those other than front-line infantry such as machine gun crews, a shortened version of the M91 infantry rifle.
M91/38 standard bayonet: Bayonet: 1891: Small arms. Handguns. Image Type Maker Rounds Cartridge ... Carcano 91/38 (Modello 91/38) short rifle: Carcano M1938 carbine:
Many kinds of small arms in use by the Regio Esercito were overhauled in the Brescia Arsenal, including the Vetterli rifle and the many versions of the Carcano rifle. [citation needed] Thousands of Carcano rifles were manufactured on assembly lines, including all the M91 TS (Special Troops) carbines made between 1898 and 1919. [2]
It was based on the Type 38 rifle and utilized a Carcano action, but retained the Arisaka/Mauser type 5-round box magazine. [6] It was chambered for the 6.5 x 50 mm cartridge. [ 1 ] Approximately 120,000 Type I rifles were produced in 1938 and 1939, with 30,000 each manufactured by Beretta and Fabbrica Nazionale d'Armi, and 60,000 manufactured ...